entity_periods: ENT_EGY_OGDOAD, PER_EGY_MIDDLE_KINGDOM

Period assignments linking entities to the historical periods when they are attested. An entity may span multiple periods. All Greek entities are assigned; Egyptian tradition is fully covered; total coverage exceeds 70%.

Data license: MIT · Data source: jebboone/deitydb

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entity_id	period_id	confidence	rationale	source_id	review_status
ENT_EGY_OGDOAD	PER_EGY_MIDDLE_KINGDOM	high	The Ogdoad as a systematized collective of eight primordial pairs is fully attested in the Coffin Texts (Middle Kingdom; c. 2055-1650 BCE); the Coffin Texts develop the Hermopolitan cosmogony where the Ogdoad creates itself in the primordial waters (Nun) and produces the sun on the primordial mound; the Middle Kingdom is the period of the Ogdoad's theological consolidation	SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS	reviewed